Say I have evidence that someone on a Verizon connection is violating my copyright, can I send a notice to Verizon and cause that person to have a "strike" added or do I need to be a big powerful media company to do that?
Related to what you said about a good computer, I would suggest that having a good keyboard and mouse are important too.
And in terms of the CPU horsepower, if a compile pass takes 3 hours on the hardware you have, consider how much wasted developer time (at $x per hour) it takes before investing in a faster box to do compilation on is worth the money.
Its not a good thing for a company like CBS to have one part of the business going to court to claim that a key feature of another companies product is killing your main revenue stream and then have another part of the business praising how good the product (and possibly the feature in question) is.
If these minerals are so vital to the nation (and possibly even important to national security because of their uses in military technology etc) just offer whatever subsidies are necessary to make it viable for mining companies to mine and process the deposits that the US has on its own soil.
You could also introduce tariffs on the import of minerals from foreign countries.
There is precedent here, the US does exactly this (subsidize domestic production, tax foreign imports) for a number of agricultural commodities (sugar being one)
Here in Australia, Internode is the only ISP offering full IPv6 to its customers. Others (Telstra for one) are talking about it but have yet to actually make it available to customers.
As someone who is 100% behind the idea of commercial space activities and hopes one-day to be able to go into space (or on a sub-orbital flight) myself, I am 100% behind the idea of giving manufacturers and parts suppliers protection from liability if the operators of the space flight do everything in their power to make it safe and something goes wrong anyway.
If the amount of money that Free.fr customers are paying to Free.fr each month does not cover the costs of delivering all those YouTube videos to those customers then Free.fr should increase their prices so that the amount that customers pay does cover the costs of delivering the content. Its like any business, if what the customer is paying does not cover the costs of delivering the product or service, you increase the price of the product.
I have a N900 as my daily phone and I have yet to see any phone that comes close. I can (and do) use the touchscreen with a small-tipped stylus for greater accuracy, the hardware keyboard is the best I have ever used and I love the openness and hackability.
So long as the content producers make more money from linear channels (regardless of the distribution medium, be it cable, satellite, fiber, whatever) than they would make through a-la-carte content distribution (subscriptions, individual program purchases, whatever) they wont change.
Remember that for any given piece of content, there is almost certainly a non-zero number of people who are paying for the content (through their package) but who do not consume the content. The amount of money that content producers would loose from people who pay for their content but dont consume it would far outweigh any profit they make from people who actually pay for their content (including those paying for it now because its available a-la-carte but who weren't paying for it before when it was only available as a linear channel)
Also, remember that the online subscription content by and large would not contain ads like the TV channels generally do (or certainly not the same $ value of ads as the TV channels have)
So as long as it remains more profitable to make the content available through a linear channel and force people to pay for content they dont want to get the content they do want, the content providers will continue to do that.
The Raspberry Pi is different to most GPUs in that it runs a full OpenGL stack on a separate processor (the VideoCore).
On my Nokia N900 (which has a PowerVR GPU), I can tell you that the graphics stack is most definatly doing OpenGL in userspace (including GLSL shader compilation) and in fact the kernel driver exists mostly as a pass-through to pass commands from userspace to the hardware. (this design appears to have been chosen to allow the kernel driver to be made open source without revealing anything about how the hardware actually works)
I for one regularly visit my local Hoyts to go to the movies and bring in a normal shopping bag filled with junk food bought from the nearby Coles or Woolies and they haven't stopped me.
I even went to see the third Lord of the Rings film when I was in Brisbane and had a large suitcase with me and they didn't care when I brought said suitcase into the theater.
I have watched many episodes of Air Crash Investigation where the incident turned out to be caused because the airline decided that the costs of maintanence to correct an issue (and the huge costs of having airplanes out of the air while the fix done) were big enough that it was judged to be worth the risk to keep flying with the flaw. (and in some cases it took multiple incidents caused by the same flaw before the airlines, aircraft manufacturer and FAA agreed to a timely fix)
The problems with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 cargo door (which were first picked up during the investigation into American Airlines flight 96 and not actually fixed until after Turkish Airlines flight 981 had a similar mid-air cargo door blowout) is a good example. As is the very similar problem that affected the cargo door on the Boeing 747 in United Flight 811.
Its the same reason we have government regulation on automobiles covering everything from the shape of the headlights to the minimum number of airbags a car has to have. If we didn't the automobile manufacturers would skimp on safety anywhere they thought they could do it and still have customers buying their cars.
I was doing a 6 month student internship (basically 6 months paid work that was also a university course and counted towards my degree) for Motorola when they implemented that CMMI crap. Did absolutely nothing to make their products better (that I could see anyway) and cost a lot of time and effort for no real gain.
The problem isn't that these satellites cost money, its that none of the idiots in Congress want to see money taken away from THEIR (generally less important to the safety/security of the nation than these new weather satellites) "pork" projects to fund the satellites. Or to see a few billionaires pay a bit more in tax to cover the costs.
The issue is not that it is or isn't safe to use WiFi inflight, the reason for FCC approval is for 2 things: 1.Device approval for all the devices that pick up WiFi signals and translate them into either a satellite up-link or a down-link to a ground station. (this may be done once for a given device or it may have to be done differently for each individual aircraft model based on the exact setup of different components it uses) and 2.Approval to transmit on the frequencies used for these links to the outside world. (which currently has to be done for each aircraft)
I think what the FCC is trying to do here is to change it so that the airlines can get approval for each new internet-enabled aircraft much faster and easier.
There is no reason why a system using UEFI has to be using any of the secure boot stuff that is being complained about.
Its perfectly possible to produce a UEFI system that doesn't support secure boot or one where secure boot is disabled unless the owner of the PC specifically enables it
The problem with core-boot is that you can't use it with any Intel CPU made in the last decade and there is no sign of that changing unless a miracle occurs and Intel decides to start releasing the necessary technical specs for its CPUs,chipsets, motherboards etc. (in theory it might be possible for someone to do what the Noveau guys are doing with NVIDIA parts and reverse engineer the Intel stuff so it can be supported in Coreboot but I suspect that would be VERY hard to do and as of yet no-one seems interested)
Some would say "buy a PC that supports Coreboot". But what do you do if you already have a PC and don't want to buy another one just to support Coreboot? (I have a Pentium 4 and a Core 2 Duo, neither of which will be usable with Coreboot anytime soon) Or what do you do if you want a PC in a specific form factor (e.g. laptop, all-in-one or whatever) or with specific features/capabilities and none exist that support Coreboot? (or the ones that do cost a lot more than the ones that don't)
How is the lock-down on the ARM Windows 8 tablets any worse than the lock-down on many other ARM devices? (including Windows Phone 8 devices and any number of Android phones)
I am all for being able to boot whatever you like on your devices but I dont get why this is somehow different to any other locked-down ARM device.
They had plans to build such a module but it was canceled along with other modules due to costs and due to the lack of Space Shuttle launch slots thanks to the Columbia disaster. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module
The unanswered question is whether the federal government will use its resources (DEA etc) to target those producing and selling Marijuana when its being legally produced according to Washington and Colorado law.
Given that the DEA has carried out raids against those dispensing marijuana for medical use in states where such use is legal and given the hardline stance taken by the DEA against marijuana in general, I wouldn't be surprised if they did carry out raids in Washington and Colorado.
Has there been any meaningful movement on making a SNES emulator that works more like say MAME where instead of a single ROM file you get a separate file for individual ROM chips and other data-holding devices in it and then some sort of description that links up the different chips (ROM, RAM, SRAM, co-processors, discrete parts etc) in the right way?
One idea I had was to copy what Microsoft did on the XBOX 360 and have encrypted memory pages (i.e. a given page of memory is encrypted before it even gets to the RAM or virtual memory page file). Completely prevents attacks like the cold-boot read-the-old-contents-of-RAM attack. Note that I know nothing about how the 360 did it or how it could be done on a SoC like this, its just an idea.
I also like the idea of having the ability to directly extend the instruction set by adding a co-processor or FPGA. And I like the idea of having hardware-level instructions for optimizing the most important/common encryption algorithms like AES, RSA and SHA.
And I also like the idea of having a hardware level trusted-computing type setup (one where the key storage is blank until the end-user decides to load keys in there)
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Say I have evidence that someone on a Verizon connection is violating my copyright, can I send a notice to Verizon and cause that person to have a "strike" added or do I need to be a big powerful media company to do that?
Related to what you said about a good computer, I would suggest that having a good keyboard and mouse are important too.
And in terms of the CPU horsepower, if a compile pass takes 3 hours on the hardware you have, consider how much wasted developer time (at $x per hour) it takes before investing in a faster box to do compilation on is worth the money.
Its not a good thing for a company like CBS to have one part of the business going to court to claim that a key feature of another companies product is killing your main revenue stream and then have another part of the business praising how good the product (and possibly the feature in question) is.
If these minerals are so vital to the nation (and possibly even important to national security because of their uses in military technology etc) just offer whatever subsidies are necessary to make it viable for mining companies to mine and process the deposits that the US has on its own soil.
You could also introduce tariffs on the import of minerals from foreign countries.
There is precedent here, the US does exactly this (subsidize domestic production, tax foreign imports) for a number of agricultural commodities (sugar being one)
Here in Australia, Internode is the only ISP offering full IPv6 to its customers.
Others (Telstra for one) are talking about it but have yet to actually make it available to customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.
is an example of just how GOOD Sony used to be back before they made the decision to buy Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola.
As someone who is 100% behind the idea of commercial space activities and hopes one-day to be able to go into space (or on a sub-orbital flight) myself, I am 100% behind the idea of giving manufacturers and parts suppliers protection from liability if the operators of the space flight do everything in their power to make it safe and something goes wrong anyway.
If the amount of money that Free.fr customers are paying to Free.fr each month does not cover the costs of delivering all those YouTube videos to those customers then Free.fr should increase their prices so that the amount that customers pay does cover the costs of delivering the content. Its like any business, if what the customer is paying does not cover the costs of delivering the product or service, you increase the price of the product.
Not go after Google and YouTube demanding money.
I have a N900 as my daily phone and I have yet to see any phone that comes close. I can (and do) use the touchscreen with a small-tipped stylus for greater accuracy, the hardware keyboard is the best I have ever used and I love the openness and hackability.
So long as the content producers make more money from linear channels (regardless of the distribution medium, be it cable, satellite, fiber, whatever) than they would make through a-la-carte content distribution (subscriptions, individual program purchases, whatever) they wont change.
Remember that for any given piece of content, there is almost certainly a non-zero number of people who are paying for the content (through their package) but who do not consume the content. The amount of money that content producers would loose from people who pay for their content but dont consume it would far outweigh any profit they make from people who actually pay for their content (including those paying for it now because its available a-la-carte but who weren't paying for it before when it was only available as a linear channel)
Also, remember that the online subscription content by and large would not contain ads like the TV channels generally do (or certainly not the same $ value of ads as the TV channels have)
So as long as it remains more profitable to make the content available through a linear channel and force people to pay for content they dont want to get the content they do want, the content providers will continue to do that.
The Raspberry Pi is different to most GPUs in that it runs a full OpenGL stack on a separate processor (the VideoCore).
On my Nokia N900 (which has a PowerVR GPU), I can tell you that the graphics stack is most definatly doing OpenGL in userspace (including GLSL shader compilation) and in fact the kernel driver exists mostly as a pass-through to pass commands from userspace to the hardware. (this design appears to have been chosen to allow the kernel driver to be made open source without revealing anything about how the hardware actually works)
I for one regularly visit my local Hoyts to go to the movies and bring in a normal shopping bag filled with junk food bought from the nearby Coles or Woolies and they haven't stopped me.
I even went to see the third Lord of the Rings film when I was in Brisbane and had a large suitcase with me and they didn't care when I brought said suitcase into the theater.
I have watched many episodes of Air Crash Investigation where the incident turned out to be caused because the airline decided that the costs of maintanence to correct an issue (and the huge costs of having airplanes out of the air while the fix done) were big enough that it was judged to be worth the risk to keep flying with the flaw. (and in some cases it took multiple incidents caused by the same flaw before the airlines, aircraft manufacturer and FAA agreed to a timely fix)
The problems with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 cargo door (which were first picked up during the investigation into American Airlines flight 96 and not actually fixed until after Turkish Airlines flight 981 had a similar mid-air cargo door blowout) is a good example. As is the very similar problem that affected the cargo door on the Boeing 747 in United Flight 811.
Its the same reason we have government regulation on automobiles covering everything from the shape of the headlights to the minimum number of airbags a car has to have. If we didn't the automobile manufacturers would skimp on safety anywhere they thought they could do it and still have customers buying their cars.
I was doing a 6 month student internship (basically 6 months paid work that was also a university course and counted towards my degree) for Motorola when they implemented that CMMI crap.
Did absolutely nothing to make their products better (that I could see anyway) and cost a lot of time and effort for no real gain.
Not to mention all the people on this earth (like me) who are physically unable to watch 3D films due to some form of vision problem.
The problem isn't that these satellites cost money, its that none of the idiots in Congress want to see money taken away from THEIR (generally less important to the safety/security of the nation than these new weather satellites) "pork" projects to fund the satellites. Or to see a few billionaires pay a bit more in tax to cover the costs.
The issue is not that it is or isn't safe to use WiFi inflight, the reason for FCC approval is for 2 things:
1.Device approval for all the devices that pick up WiFi signals and translate them into either a satellite up-link or a down-link to a ground station. (this may be done once for a given device or it may have to be done differently for each individual aircraft model based on the exact setup of different components it uses)
and 2.Approval to transmit on the frequencies used for these links to the outside world. (which currently has to be done for each aircraft)
I think what the FCC is trying to do here is to change it so that the airlines can get approval for each new internet-enabled aircraft much faster and easier.
There is no reason why a system using UEFI has to be using any of the secure boot stuff that is being complained about.
Its perfectly possible to produce a UEFI system that doesn't support secure boot or one where secure boot is disabled unless the owner of the PC specifically enables it
The problem with core-boot is that you can't use it with any Intel CPU made in the last decade and there is no sign of that changing unless a miracle occurs and Intel decides to start releasing the necessary technical specs for its CPUs,chipsets, motherboards etc. (in theory it might be possible for someone to do what the Noveau guys are doing with NVIDIA parts and reverse engineer the Intel stuff so it can be supported in Coreboot but I suspect that would be VERY hard to do and as of yet no-one seems interested)
Some would say "buy a PC that supports Coreboot". But what do you do if you already have a PC and don't want to buy another one just to support Coreboot? (I have a Pentium 4 and a Core 2 Duo, neither of which will be usable with Coreboot anytime soon) Or what do you do if you want a PC in a specific form factor (e.g. laptop, all-in-one or whatever) or with specific features/capabilities and none exist that support Coreboot? (or the ones that do cost a lot more than the ones that don't)
How is the lock-down on the ARM Windows 8 tablets any worse than the lock-down on many other ARM devices? (including Windows Phone 8 devices and any number of Android phones)
I am all for being able to boot whatever you like on your devices but I dont get why this is somehow different to any other locked-down ARM device.
They had plans to build such a module but it was canceled along with other modules due to costs and due to the lack of Space Shuttle launch slots thanks to the Columbia disaster.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module
The unanswered question is whether the federal government will use its resources (DEA etc) to target those producing and selling Marijuana when its being legally produced according to Washington and Colorado law.
Given that the DEA has carried out raids against those dispensing marijuana for medical use in states where such use is legal and given the hardline stance taken by the DEA against marijuana in general, I wouldn't be surprised if they did carry out raids in Washington and Colorado.
Has there been any meaningful movement on making a SNES emulator that works more like say MAME where instead of a single ROM file you get a separate file for individual ROM chips and other data-holding devices in it and then some sort of description that links up the different chips (ROM, RAM, SRAM, co-processors, discrete parts etc) in the right way?
Don't allow councils to have access to the vehicle registration database in the first place.
One idea I had was to copy what Microsoft did on the XBOX 360 and have encrypted memory pages (i.e. a given page of memory is encrypted before it even gets to the RAM or virtual memory page file). Completely prevents attacks like the cold-boot read-the-old-contents-of-RAM attack. Note that I know nothing about how the 360 did it or how it could be done on a SoC like this, its just an idea.
I also like the idea of having the ability to directly extend the instruction set by adding a co-processor or FPGA.
And I like the idea of having hardware-level instructions for optimizing the most important/common encryption algorithms like AES, RSA and SHA.
And I also like the idea of having a hardware level trusted-computing type setup (one where the key storage is blank until the end-user decides to load keys in there)